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2. Black and white photo approximately 18.5 cm x 25 cm mounted
on very slightly larger card, undated, with no annotations, showing
the Terminal gorge of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt.
3. Small sepia or faded black and white, partly hand- coloured
photo approximately 9.5 cm x 7 cm showing the terminal gorge of
the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt. The central section showing the plug
of ice at the far end of the gorge is tinted blue. Reproduced in vol.
1, fig 24, facing p. 136. Undated, attributed to Percy Kendall. This
is a reduced version of no 2 above.
Name: Kendall, Percy Fry, 1856-1936
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Place: Zermatt Switzerland
Notes: ''The Gorge of the Aar and its Teachings'' was first
published in ''Fortnightly Review'' August 1896.
WP6/6/4 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
Notes and annotated proof sheets? of images illustrating
'Monkeys: Their Affinities and Distribution', in Alfred Russel
Wallace, ''Studies Scientific and Social'', (London 1900) vol. 1,
Ch.VII, pp. 146-184, figs 25-43, comprising:
1. Rough notes in ink and pencil in Alfred Russel Wallace's hand
on one sheet headed on the front ''Woodcuts'' with a list of primate
species beginning with Lemur Catta, some crossed through, with
page and/or figure number references to figures in Flower and
Lyddeker, Bates and Zoological Society publications.
2 - 19: Small page or part-page proof-sheets? with annotations in
Alfred Russel Wallace's hand showing woodcut and engraved?
images varying in size from approx. 6 cm x 5cm to 9.5 cm x 15
cm, of various primates species including Gorilla, Lemur and
Loris; and a diagram of the skull of an Aye-Aye; all reproduced in
Ch. VII, figs 25-43; attributed to Flower and Lyddeker, Huxley,
Bates, and the Zoological Society of London.
Notes: ''Monkeys: Their Affinities and Distribution'' was first
published in ''Contemporary Review'', Dec 1881. Images are from
Flower, W H and Lyddeker, R, ''An introduction to the study of
Mammals living and extinct'' (London 1891), Bates, H W, ''The
Naturalist on the River Amazon'' (London 1863), Huxley, T H
''Man's place in nature, and other anthropological essays''
(London? 1863) and ''List of the Vertebrated Animals now or
lately living in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London''
(London, various editions from 1828 onwards).
WP6/6/5 Papers re Studies Scientific and Social
Annotated proof sheets? of images illustrating 'Flowers and
Forests of the Far West', in Alfred Russel Wallace, ''Studies
Scientific and Social'', (London 1900) vol. 1, Ch. X, pp. 213-234,
figs 49 and 50, comprising:
1. Proof sheet? with black and white photographic image approx. 9
cm x 13 cm showing three tall Sequoia? tree trunks, the central
one apparently partly stripped of bark, annotated in Alfred Russel
Wallace's hand in ink ''The 'Mother of the Forest; (dead)
Calaveros Grove'' and in pencil '' To face p. 807 of proof'' and
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